NukeSEO DH UTF-8 Problems

Worker Joined: Oct 22, 2005 Posts: 201

Hey Guys,

I am trying to use NukeSEO DH but seeing all kind of "?" in title, keywords and description meta. I am working with UTF-8..

I looked at the code and change few functions to mb_xxx (multi byte - utf8) but still see "?" any advise on how to get this thing working with UTF-8?

Thanks!

(Using UTF-8 Because of herbew.)

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:12 am

I am now sure all the problems i'm haveing is have something to do with this function:

Code:

// Strip html and truncate to create a META value.


function seoHTMLtoMETA($str, $type = 'KEYWORDS', $length = 70) {


   require_once 'includes/seo_fns.php';


   $str = preg_replace('/(\[(\S+)\]|&(?![a-zA-Z]{2,6};))/sU', '', $str); // Remove BBCode and chopped off entities


   $str = check_html($str, 'nohtml'); // Remove HTML tags


   $str = preg_replace('/(\s+)/', ' ', $str); // Remove all internal whitepace, replace with single space


   $entities = array('(tm)','&quot;', '&copy;', '&gt;', '&lt;', 


      '&nbsp;', '&trade;', '&reg;', ';', 


      chr(10), chr(13), chr(9));


   $str = html_entity_decode(seo_simple_strip_tags($str));


   if ($type == 'DESCRIPTION') $str = str_replace($entities, '', $str);


   $str = htmlspecialchars($str);


   // Remove stop words from keyword content, then convert to most popular keywords


   if ($type == 'KEYWORDS' and $str > '') $str = seoGetAutoKeys($str);


   $metavalue = truncate_string($str, $length);


   if (mb_strlen($str) > mb_strlen($metavalue)) $metavalue .= "...";


   return $metavalue;


}

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:58 pm

Seems you cross posted, which is confusing. Are you using this site or nukeSEO for your enquiry, just so people know where to reply.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:33 pm

Hey Guardian2003, Sorry for that.

Quote:

Is your main DOCTYPE issuing a utf-8 charset?
What about the forums as they send their own?
Is the data stored in the database actually utf-8 or is the browser mis-interpreting them once displayed on the page?

Sorry for what might seem like stupid questions but I thinks it's important to ascertain whether the original data is utf-8 or not before you do anything else.

yes, doctype is utf-8 also server send headers as utf-8, and mysql is utf-8 as well.

I have add to db/mysql.php utf-8 encoding too and set names for utf-8.

I think it has something to do with the functions SEO DH is using which are not multi byte compatible. I have started to chage the dh.class.php to mb_xxxx functions and it seems im getting on the right track.

Currently im coverting preg_replace to mb_ereg_replace.

What do you think?

Thanks.

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:14 pm

That is one of the reasons I asked if you had checked the data in the database itself. If you had data in there before converting to utf-8, that could be causing the problem (especially with the language you are using).
If you have a mix of data stored using different character encodings, you could probably use mb_convert_encoding() to make sure the string is consistent.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:11 am

I am have some difficulties to convert this:

$str = preg_replace('/(\[(\S+)\]|&(?![a-zA-Z]{2,6} Wink

)/sU', '', $str); // Remove BBCode and chopped off entities

to mb_ereg_replace, someone can give me a hand?

Thanks!

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:37 am

prekill wrote:

I am have some difficulties to convert this:

$str = preg_replace('/(\[(\S+)\]|&(?![a-zA-Z]{2,6} Wink

)/sU', '', $str); // Remove BBCode and chopped off entities

to mb_ereg_replace, someone can give me a hand?

Thanks!

You should not have to convert this. preg_replace has multi-byte support. It is enabled with the "u" modifier that is used in the code in question.

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:34 pm

but its not working...

i still see in the description [web:65450]http://khkjhk[/web] and such...

Please advise

thanks

Smile

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:06 pm

I would guess you have added some bbcode mods and the preg_replace isn't matching for [web:65450]

If this is the feature that allows embedding a webpage in an iframe I would recommend you not use that. Too easy these days for someone to load a malicious page and potentially infect other users/visitors, imo.

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:52 am

Umm I see,

I will take into account. BUT! LOL

Even if I will remove the Mode, those queries are still in the DB.

How will I be able to remove those and not show it the meta?

+

I will want to remove any link appear in the meta. (ex. http://XXXX)

Thanks!

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:45 am

I have added those too:

Code:

$str = mb_ereg_replace('(http://\S+)', ' ', $str); // Remove all links in meta


$str = mb_ereg_replace('(www.\S+)', ' ', $str); // Remove all links in meta

What do you think?

p.s I want to add some default keywords to be used every time no meter what, how can I add those?

Can it cause any problem?

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:32 am

Can you post a link to one of your pages where you have these links in the meta?
I'm just curious.

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:52 am

sorry Guardian2003, its all in a dev environment (localhost on my pc)..